LINKS® Curriculum

The Links Curriculum (Linking Assessment and Instruction for Independence) is an evidence-based, comprehensive, web-based curriculum to teach upper elementary, secondary and postsecondary students with autism and other developmental disabilities to be independent across school, community and vocational routines.

The Links Curriculum includes detailed lesson plans, visual sequence strips, data systems and assessment. Links is designed to promote student independence in natural environments. The Links online system utilizes a curriculum-based assessment to individualize routines for every student. The Links school and community lesson plans provide the user with the tools necessary to teach both individual skills and independence in daily routines.

Offers custom visual supports for use in teaching routines and lessons

Is a pratical and efficient solution for educators

Is award winning!

Our Links Curriculum web-based application allows educators and others to conduct global and targeted autism assessments. Educators can immediately review the results through a variety of easy-to-understand reports that detail the findings. Among other things, baseline and ongoing data will be collected to assess a student's level of independence, while taking into account individualized prompting needs for daily routines. This Links Curriculum autism assessment is a comprehensive one and provides exceptional value to educators and parents who subsequently choose to utilize the knowledge effectively.

With the comprehensive Links Curriculum, instructors can develop and polish classroom routines that can be implemented with all students to teach and nurture critical skills. The Links Curriculum teaches functional routines by applying evidence-based strategies (including discrete trial training), and includes extensive lesson plans for both individual and group instruction.

Assessment data collected in the natural environment allows instructors to identify specific routine steps and skills that are problematic for a student.

Links Curriculum encourages educators to implement a variety of instructional techniques, utilizing visual, verbal, and auditory prompts that increase a student's ability to engage more independently in school and community settings.

Instructors are able to track a student's progress related to independence within routines by monitoring the teacher cues and additional prompting needed by a student.

On an administrative level, Links Curriculum empowers staff to view data for students in their region to determine if performance goals have been met.

1 Select Routines

2 Individualize Routines

3 Assess Routine

4 Teach Links Lessons

5 Track Student Progress

6 Re-evaluate

The process reflects the natural education cycle of selection, assessment, instruction, assessment and evaluation of results. Special Education Teacher, Oregon

This is a great curriculum and online system! It clarifies and simplifies the process of teaching functional routines! It provides structure, data management, prompt guidance and instructional support. Links has already impacted the way I perceive teaching and assessing routines! SLP, Texas

It gives teachers incredible structure. Administrator, Arkansas

Links provides teachers with ideas and support for how to best assess and collect data on behavior within the context of routines. BCBA, Iowa